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Funny you should mention that. There are many things that when we think of building them, our minds go to metal work. However, a large percentage of them can just as easily be built from wood and will handle the job just fine.  I don't have a lot of metal working equipment and if I get near a welder even Navy Seals run screaming. Wood projects, on the other hand, I am more than equipped to take on.  So I have to remind myself many things can be done using wood instead of metal, or the two can be forced to play together.


Nancy Reading wrote:Thank you for that firewood rack post Kelly! It's given me ideas - I want to make some wood trolleys - to shuffle wood from the wood shed into the house - that are small enough to store under the kitchen counter. I was thinking metal - but there is no reason they can't be made of wood (which might be much easier).

One of my little projects has been outside - I like to use comfrey as a cut-and-come-again mulch. It is also good in my climate for holding back the grass from my growing areas. I'm in the process of planting up a new set of beds at the moment, so I dug up part of an established clump that is starting to sprout:

propagating comfrey for keeping down grass
digging comfrey


When I teased apart the growing points I had about 20 small plants to plant out

propagating comfrey for keeping down grass
comfrey starts


That was enough to do one side of the patch with a double layer of comfrey starts. That will make a nice barrier in a year or two.

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